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<h1>BiSciCol</h1>
BiSciCol (Biological Science Collections) is an NSF-funded collaborative project with the goal of building an
infrastructure designed to tag and track scientific collections and all of their derivatives.


<h2>Tools</h2>
The following tools from BiSciCol are made available to the biodiversity informatics user community to
promote
linking collections-based data and are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.
Questions regarding these tools may be directed to the owners and commmitters of the code-bases related to each project
below.

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    <li><a href="/triplifier">Triplifier</a><br>The triplifier converts Spreadsheets, databases, and Darwin Core
        Archives into RDF/N3 files suitable for use on the Semantic Web.
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    <li><a href="/bcid/index.jsp">Biocode Identifiers (BCIDs)</a><br>BCIDs are a persistent identifier solution for
        biological samples.


    <li><a href="/biocode-fims">Biocode FIMS</a><br>Biocode-FIMS incorporates components of the BCID and triplifier
        technologies to
        for publishing sample-based
        spreadsheet data.
    </li>

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<h2>The BiScicol Ontology</h2>
The <a href="http://biscicol.org/terms/biscicol.owl">BiSciCol OWL File</a> describes a set of high level relational
predicates for linking biodiversity concepts and events. This OWL file can be used to reason over data generated
from the BiSciCol Triplifier.

<h2>APIs</h2>

<p>We maintain an API for each component of our suite of applications, which are described in detail at the following
    locations:
<ul>
    <li><a href="/id/bcid.wadl">BCID REST Services</a></li>
    <li><a href="/triplifier/rest/triplifier.wadl">Triplifier REST Services</a></li>
    <li><a href="/biocode-fims/rest/biocode-fims.wadl">Biocode FIMS REST Services</a></li>
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<h2>More Information</h2>

<p><a href="http://biscicol.blogspot.com/">The BiSciCol Blog</a> contains updates and current information for the
    BiSciCol
    Project including presentations, news items, and general project information.</p>

<p>All code for the BiSciCol applications are open source and available for use by the community at large and are
    available at:
<ul>
    <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/triplifier/">Triplifier codebase</a> (<a
            href="http://biscicol.org/triplifier/doc/index.html">Javadoc</a>)
    </li>
    <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/bcid/">BCID codebase</a> (<a
            href="http://biscicol.org/bcid/javadoc/index.html">Javadoc</a>)
    </li>
    <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/biocode-fims/">Biocode FIMS codeabase</a> (<a
            href="http://biscicol.org/biocode-fims/javadoc/index.html">Javadoc</a>)
    </li>
    <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/biscicol/">Original BiSciCol codebase (Deprecated)</a></li>
</ul>

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    <img src='nsf.jpeg' height=50> This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under
    Grant
    Number
    DBI-0956426. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the
    author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation

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